Teen trying to get phone from locked room plummets to her death from fifth-floor fire escape during Tribeca house party

15-year-old Imogen Roche plummeted five stories to her death while attending a house party at a Tribeca apartment building, police said Sunday night. (Obtained by News)

A 15-year-old girl who went out onto a fire escape during a Tribeca house party to try to retrieve her cell phone from a locked room plunged five stories to her death, police said Monday.

The teen, identified by sources as Imogen Roche, was attending a party on Reade St. at W. Broadway when she went out onto a fifth-floor fire escape around 11 p.m. Sunday, cops said.

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Imogen, a student at Beacon High School, was trying to gain access to a locked room through the window when she slipped and fell, landing on her back on the sidewalk, cops said. She had left her cell phone in the room, sources said.

Imogen was trying to gain access to a locked room through the window when she slipped and fell, landing on her back on the sidewalk, cops said. She had left her cell phone in the locked room, sources said. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News)

Medics rushed her to Bellevue Hospital, but she couldn’t be saved.

“It’s a super tragic situation,” said a neighbor on the first-floor of the building where she fell. “It was kind of mind blowing to find out that someone had died right outside my apartment.”

Imogen, an aspiring actor and dancer, appeared in short films posted online by Manhattan Youth, an after-school program run by her father, Theseus Roche, an actor and director who is a member of the Screen Actors Guild. She appeared in one video with other teens titled “When Words Fail,” about a middle school girl’s struggles with self-image.

Imogen’s father was described on the Manhattan Youth website as an award-winning writer and director, in his 10th year as director of the after-school program. He also directs the theater program, which was described in a neighborhood paper as putting on “some of the most creative productions you’ll ever see done by middle-schoolers.”

His Facebook page was filled with images of father and daughter from when she was a little girl through her teenage years. Many of those pictures were removed from the website on Monday.

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“This is heartbreaking,” said Vicki Winters, 61, a travel blogger and longtime neighbor of Imogen and her dad. “She was adorable and he was an amazing father. She was a darling little girl . . . a special and unique young lady.”

The parents of a teen who knew Imogen well said she was going to begin her sophomore year at Beacon.

“Oh my God, Imogen,” the friend’s mom said. “She was very talented and super smart. She’s an actor, she dances. And she’s an only child. Oh my god, she’s beautiful. She’s tall. She has a wonderful, infectious personality. She’s so nice to people.”